Mass Effect 3 multiplayer

[Pinky]

i've come up with a few rules about joining public gold games.

-must have enemies selected
-must have map selected
-must have at least 3 asari, salarians, and/or quarians
-no vanguards unless its asari
-everyone must be level 17 or higher

otherwise its just not going to work.

[Kaden]

How do you feel about the Turian Sentinel?

EDIT: And I hate it when games put patch notes only on forums. There should always be announcements or links or even the notes themselves in the client, where everyone will always see it.

[Pinky]

eh, turians suffer from not being able to dodge and they're too big for crouching. great powers, though. love overload

[Pinky]

finally found a weapon stat guide. awwyeah https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/lv?k...3JLdXZZVXc

[Pinky]

New DLC coming April 10.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BasebmHiq...verified=1

It will be free to download.

[Maruset]

Batarians. Sweet

[Dehan]

Can't wait. Now to get my Sentinel to level 20 today.

If anyone on the PS3 wants to join in let me know.

[Belle Hibiki]

Krogan.

Vanguard.

I think I just came.

[Vad]

Yep. I had to change my pants as well.

[Super Buu]

Sweet, they got around to finishing the multiplayer, and they're not even charging us for it.

[Pinky]

downloaded a patch. not the new content. such a cocktease

[Pinky]

balance change to adrinaline rush: damage reduction changed from 25 to 40%, and shield boost from 50 to 100% of base shields. if they had increased assault rifle damage by 35% it would be almost exactly what i had recommended on the bioware forum last week.

[Pinky]

Unlocked all the new weapons, none seem great but they're all level 1 so maybe that'll change.

Also got the Batarian Sentinel and Krogan Vanguard. Both. Are. So. GOOD

The Krogan Vanguard has more shields/health than other Krogans. Being able to recover 100% shields with an attack that also instantly covers long distances (and sets up heavy melee) is exactly as good as it sounds. His Biotic Charge power has a longer cooldown than other Vanguards. I played him on Gold against the Geth and it still recharges fast enough to keep him alive for a long time.

Plus he's got Barrier that's like magic Tech Armor - damage reduction, buffs melee, can explode (i kinda miss ME2's version where it was shields on top of shields, but that would make him immortal). I think he also has some kind of grenade, but I didn't bother putting points into it because CHARGE-MELEE-RAGE is all I want to do. He's fuckin huge though, there's this armor ridge on top of his hump that makes low-cover useless.

Batarian Sentinel is interesting. Can't dodge at all, which is frusterating, but they have decent HP/shields. Blade Armor is exactly what it sounds like, blades that reduce damage taken, buff melee and do return-damage when you get melee'ed. His weight-reduction evolution is unique: -25% to both sniper rifles and shotguns. Thought about trying that combo on a Soldier, but never did because the available weapons don't synergize well. Currently carrying Viper X and Katana X for the hell of it. His Training power also gives +ammo capacity along with weapon damage, very nice for most sniper rifles and shotguns since they have low capacity.

His Net power is slow to cast, slowly moves through the air (maybe slowest projectile) and is weak. Almost anything outside of melee range can dodge it, anything in melee range will hit you if you try it. Kinda disappointed because it sounded awesome from the evolution descriptions. When it does work, it can paralyze the enemy for a moment, which is important for the next thing...

Batarian. Heavy. Melee. Without a doubt it is the strongest melee in the game. That's because it auto-aims for the head every time, no matter what, which means a cool +150% damage. Punch a Cannibal (which are Batarians btw) in the back of its hump? It's face will still explode when hit. With Blade Armor up it will take three bars off a Brute on Silver, and I didn't even upgrade him for the highest potential melee power. The only problem is the amount of time the Batarian spends charging up his melee weapon, it's at least two seconds, and you can be interrupted by an instakill from the monster you're attacking. But with correct timing I can run up and knock a Phantoms head off in one punch. I love it every time that happens. feelsgoodman.jpg

[Belle Hibiki]

My Asari vanguard annoys me so much. Bronze? Total rape face. Silver? Unless I'm super-careful, I just melt after a biotic charge, and have been sitting back doing Stasis->Sniper headshot.

In which case why am I playing this instead of an Asari Adept.

[Pinky]

I like to use Asari Titsguard Vanguard to play as traveling support to other Vanguards. I Stasis something, they crash into it for an explosion. Or they Charge/Nova, and I crash into whatever they don't hit.

Your team mate needs to be at least semi competent, though. Good luck fishing for one of those from Vanguard pubs.

[Pinky]

New balance changes.

Lots of assault rifles and SMG's were given some combination of higher damage, more extra ammo, and/or lower weight. Phaeston, Revenant, Geth SMG, Tempest and Shuriken are the ones I remember off hand. My favorite change was the Phaeston since it's now nearly equal to the Avenger in damage, but carries a lot more ammo (450 up from 375, compared to Avenger's 362), has a larger magazine, is more accurate, faster, and only marginally heavier.

Decoy got nerfed, though (same with Combat Drone and Turrets). Now fewer enemies will be allowed to target it. Gonna need a new strategy for Gold D:

[Kaden]

The Decoy/Turret nerf was pretty good. It was just silly that an entire wave of enemies could be stopped in their tracks by two Decoys/turrets.

[Pinky]

Time for weekly balance changes.

The only things I cared about were the buff to Concussive Shot's base damage, and more weapon damage bonus for Adrinaline Rush. I guess the weight reduction/damage increase for the Eviscerator shotgun were also good but I've leveled my Disciple up high enough that it's my lightest shotgun already.

I also learned that your game info is linked to your Bioware forum account. Pretty neat display menu to show off all your unlocked junk http://social.bioware.com/3754147/&v=bw_...ultiplayer

[Sage]

I take it like all of you are playing this on PC.

Well if you got a clunky old X360 and want to play then let me know! =o

[Jonathan Meer]

My ME3-Launcher (Origin) screen name: Weemus